World: The Special Patient in Suite 201

The latest sanctuary for the deposed Shah of Iran is Suite 201 in Maadi
Military Hospital, overlooking the Nile River on the outskirts of
Cairo. As helicopters whirred overhead, 100 machine gun-toting
soldiers cordoned off the seven-story concrete building, refusing to
admit even the relatives of other patients. Inside, a team of 20
doctors labored to foster the ousted monarch's recovery from
emergency surgery on his cancerous spleen. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief
William Drozdiak reports on the tense medical vigil:

When the emaciated patient checked in under the private escort of
Egyptian President...